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88th Giro d'Italia - PT
Italy, May 7-29, 2005
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Stage 13 - May 21: Mezzocorona - Ortisei, 218 km
Il Falco flies again: super Savoldelli soars to maglia rosa
Basso cracks, Parra powers to stage win
By Tim Maloney, European Editor in Ortisei
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Today was the "tappone", the major mountain stage of the Giro d'Italia that raced through the dark heart of the Dolomiti Mountains with five major climbs and almost 220km of racing. With 10km to race at the base of the final climb to Ortisei, it looked like Saturday's stage might end with the status quo; Ivan Basso (CSC) in control of the Giro in his maglia rosa, but evidently the day-long chase by his CSC team and tough finishing climb took a toll on Basso, who faded in the end on the final ascent of Pontives and lost the Giro race lead to Discovery Channel's Paolo Savoldelli.
65 years ago, the Giro d'Italia arrived in Ortisei with a historic win by Gino Bartali, while Fausto Coppi wore the maglia rosa. Today, Savoldelli made history himself with a superb surge on the final climb to strip the maglia rosa from Basso. The CSC rider had stomach problems during the stage and simply ran out of gas on the final climb. Nicknamed il Falco (The Falcon) for his superb descending skills, it's been two long years since Savoldelli has been tested in the mountains. Two days ago, il Falco won the stage ahead of Basso and today Savoldelli passed his test with flying colours. Saturday's Savoldelli resembled the same rider who flew up Passo Coe to Folgaria to take the maglia rosa and win the Giro in 2002.
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Savoldelli explained post stage that, "Basso's CSC team worked a lot and kept the race under control today. Everybody knew that the stage would be decided on the final climb, because the Passo della Erbe was very hard and a long way from the finish. I felt good today and on the final climb I saw that Simoni had attacked, so I followed him. Then I saw that Basso was dropped. I accelerated hard, maybe too hard because I slowed in the last 500m of the climb. But I still managed to take time from Basso."
The Discovery Channel rider commented further, "I didn't have any plan today; on the last climb, no one is going to try and save energy. I had more energy today...that's part of cycling; two days ago, Basso was better than everybody. Today it was me, tomorrow it might be Simoni and the day after Basso. That's the spectacle of cycling.
"At this point, I'm doing more than was expected, so that will make anyone happy. I prepared well for this Giro, even if I did have to stop for my broken collarbone. Maybe I raced too much in other years before the Giro and was already tired physically and mentally. I seem to be getting better every day. Now I have the maglia rosa, and let's see how it goes. My objective was to come back and be competitive...I've suffered quite a bit in the last two years."
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Savoldelli is now in command of the Giro, with 0'50 lead on Basso, 0'53 on Di Luca, 2'16 on Simoni and 2'39 on the day's other big winners from the day's big breakaway: Garate, who jumped seven places on GC into fifth and Caucchioli, now sixth at 3'25.
Someone who clearly suffered today was Ivan Basso, who had stomach trouble all day and vomited after the stage. Although Basso was too indisposed to talk to the media, his CSC team director Bjarne Riis explained after the stage that, "Ivan doesn't feel good...he had a bad stomach all day, so I can say that we were lucky today because the team was strong. We managed to keep the pace high for him so (Ivan) didn't have to worry about attacks. In the end he didn't lose that much. And we hope that he's OK tomorrow...if not, it will be tough for him."
Another Ivan was the big winner on the day Saturday, Selle Italia-Colombia's Ivan Parra, brother of Tour De France star Fabio. The 29 year-old from Sogamoso, Colombia is a talented climber who came to Europe six years ago and has raced for Vitalicio, O.N.C.E. and Kelme, but didn't get the breakthrough win he was seeking. The 88th Giro's Stage 13 was the breakthrough Parra was looking for, as he notched his second career win in Europe and crossed the line today in Ortisei with tears of joy streaming from his eyes as he pointed to a photo of his young son.
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"All my people were waiting for me here today", Parra said after his gutsy stage win coming from a break that was away for 185km. "I have to thank my team Selle Italia-Colombia for giving me an opportunity this year. I've been looking for a win like this for years. I was feeling good today and I knew my wife and son were at the finish so I gave it everything."
Telling the story of the day, Parra related that, "Me and my teammate Rujano were in the break and we were both strong today. We both tried to get away because it was important for (Selle Italia-Colombia) to win today."
Saturday was a day where both Simoni and Cunego showed their "grinta" (determination) on the tough ascent of the Passo delle Erbe, but didn't have the legs to back it up. But on the last climb, Simoni and Cunego and their Lampre-Cafitta team managed to crack a Basso who was not 100%. But as yesterday, they underestimated Discovery Channel's Savoldelli, who showed today that he may be the strongest rider in the 2005 Giro. Interviewed post-stage, a terse Simoni said, "Yes, it was a hard day. Savoldelli is riding strongly."
How it unfolded
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On a gorgeous Saturday morning among the vineyards of Mezzocorona, 177 riders took the start at 10:34 at the Citadella del Vino and headed northeast out of the Adige River valley into the dark, unforgiving heart of the Dolomiti. The battle began immediately as riders tried to get away before the first difficult but unclassified 20km climb up Monte San Pietro.
After a series of multiple attacks and counter attacks and after 27km, Parra, Lobato and Valjavec got away, and former Giro stage winner Aitor Gonzalez then bridged across to make it a quartet. Cofidis leader Bertagnolli abandoned after 30km from allergy problems, followed two kilometres later by De Jongh. The pace was high as the first hour covered 32.4km. 35km into stage, 16 chasers came across to make the front group 20-strong, including Intergiro leader Krauss, Rodriguez and Lobato (Saunier Duval), who also had the best placed rider on GC in the break was in Juan Manuel Garate, sitting 12th at 6'48 behind maglia rosa Basso. 29 year old Basque rider Garate was a danger man, as he was 10th in last year's Giro and fourth in the '02 edition. Maglia verde José Rujano, Tiralongo, Credit Agricole's Bellotti and Caucchioli, Belli, Horrach Caruso, Noé, Bettini, Garrido, Rasmussen, Blaudzun, Kessler and Schaffrath were the other break members, but Blaudzun was called back to the gruppo maglia rosa. The other riders were riding hard to gain time on the road to Ortisei.
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As for the Giro leader, Basso and his CSC team were riding tempo on the front, 2'30 behind the big break. After 50km, the lead for the break had swelled to 3'35, as Saunier Duval had Lobato and Rodriguez driving the pace to gain time for Garate. Next rider to abandon from the gruppo maglia rosa was Ziegler after 56km. In the front group, maglia verde Rujano attacked on the approach to the first GPM at 71km on Passo di Costalunga (1745m.), and was followed by Saunier Duval's Lobato and Rodriguez who neutralized the aggression of the miniscule Venezuelan climber. This acceleration caused Intergiro leader Krauss to lose contact, who was trailing by 1'40 as Rujano took more KOM points atop the 1745m. Passo di Costalunga. Other abandons from the gruppo maglia rosa were Fertonani, Beloki, Veneberg, Hesjedal and Navas Chica.
As the now 19 escapees began the climb to the monumental Passo di Sella in Canazei, the lead was 7'45 and Garate was virtual maglia rosa, but there was still a long way to Ortisei. Krauss had been absorbed by the CSC led gruppo maglia rosa as they began the ascent to Passo di Sella (2244m.), while Saunier-Duval continued to push the pace up front. After three hours of racing, the pace was still moderate, 31.6km/h, but the gap between the break and the gruppo maglia rosa had began to drop as CSC upped the pace a notch on the climb to Passo di Sella. Under sparkling blue skies and the watchful majesty of the Gruppo di Sella rock formations, maglia verde Rujano took the KOM at the summit, while CSC's chase had pulled back 1'30 and the gap was now 6'15 at the halfway point in Stage 13.
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Down a short descent and then up a short climb to the snow clad Passo di Gardena at 2121m., Garate became virtual maglia rosa again as the gap was back to 7'00, and the break began the long descent to the feed zone in Corvara in Badia, then up the penultimate ascent of the steep, difficult Passo delle Erbe. CSC had sent the big guns to the front in the person of Andrea Peron to lead the chase on the almost 30km descent to S.Martino in Badia at the foot of the Passo delle Erbe. 2004 USPRO winner Ventoso and Quick.Step's Mads Christensen crashed on the technical descent before the feed zone in Corvara in Badia and Ventoso abandoned at the feed zone.
With 90km to go in Corvara in Badia, the gap was 7'15 and the average was 32.7km/h after four hours of racing, and CSC's Red Guard of maglia rosa Basso were still in control of the situation with 120 riders still together. But this situation wouldn't last as Passo delle Erbe started. Deep in the Dolomiti, Passo delle Erbe is 15.2km long and gains 1070m to 2004m. Erbe starts with a steep initial part of 6km, then had a brief respite of a 3km descent, then another tough 6km section to the summit with a steep final 2km of over 10%. 11 years ago, Marco Pantani was first over the top of the Passo delle Erbe and Giro d'Italia organizers had dedicated this summit to the deceased Italian Giro champion.
As the gruppo maglia rosa started the first steep ramps of the Passo delle Erbe, the gruppo maglia rosa split in two, with 50 riders in the first part. After 2km of Erbe, Cunego and Simoni attacked and quickly got a gap, while maglia rosa Basso didn't respond right away. This acceleration blew the front group to bits and Basso was quickly left without teammates. After 3km of Erbe, there was a regrouping of the chase and Liquigas came to the front as well, and the two Lampre fugitives had 0'20 lead on the gruppo maglia rosa. Basso put Schleck and Zabriskie on the front, with white clad ProTour leader Di Luca was looking good on his wheel, with teammates Cioni and Wegelius right there. Savoldelli and Gonchar were there, as were Sella, Scarponi, Van Huffel, Ardila, Sanchez, Unai Osa, neo-pro Pozzovivo and Bruseghin, among others
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The Lampre boys seemed to be gaining slowly gaining ground on Basso's group, while up in the front of the race, the break was starting to lose riders out the back as Saunier Duval's Lobato and Credit Agricole's Caucchioli were keeping the pressure on. Halfway up Passo delle Erbe, Simoni and Cunego had gained 0'30 and Basso was riding like he had consulted Lance Armstrong's playbook. The maglia rosa didn't panic and kept things under control with his teammates Zabriskie and Schleck riding perfect tempo on the front as the more difficult second part began in Ponte with 63km to go. Luxembourger Schleck is a chip off the old block, as his dad was a pro for 12 years and was a support rider for Anquetil, Janssens and Ocaña.
In the break, Saunier Duval's Lobato was hammering away for his leader Garate and atop the summit of Passo delle Erbe, it was Garate to take the KOM points ahead of mini-climber Rujano, whom he was annoyed at for not doing much work on the climb. Simoni and Cunego were absorbed by the gruppo maglia rosa 1km before the summit and as the Basso group crested the top among a huge crowd of tifosi, the gap to the now 12 strong break was 5'42. The Cunego-Simoni move didn't pay off and Basso's CSC squad showed that they could support the maglia rosa in a tough situation.
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Next was a 3km descent, then a short climb up to Passo Eores (1863m.), then a long 25km descent down the Val d'Isarco to Bressanone, across Ponte Gardena into Val de Funes, and then up the final 9km climb to Pontives and a quick 4km drop into Ortisei for the finish. In the break, Garate was taking charge and was getting help from Caucchioli and Belli, both of whom were looking to come up on GC. Plenty of riders had rejoined the gruppo maglia rosa on the descent and there were now 40 riders with Basso, still 5'45 behind while the average speed after five hours was 31.8km/h. Some dark clouds had gathered over the mountains, while bright sun shown on the Intergiro in Bressanone where Belli beat Garate for the 0'06 time bonus with 30km to go. Bellotti, Bettini and Schaffrath were at 2'30 and the gruppo maglia rosa came through the Intergiro 4'57 behind.
Zabriskie was having a super day and was pounding away on the front of the gruppo maglia rosa, constantly pulling back time on the tiring break riders who had been out front for over 150km and as the final climb approached, the gap between the break and gruppo maglia rosa had dropped to 3'30 under the powerful locomotion of Zabriskie. The front group was composed of Paolo Tiralongo (Ceramica Panaria), Ivan Parra and José Rujano (Colombia-Selle Italia), Pietro Caucchioli (Crédit Agricole), Wladimir Belli (Domina Vacanze), Giampaolo Caruso (Liberty Seguros), Andrea Noè (Liquigas-Bianchi), Tadej Valjavec (Phonak), Juan Manuel Garate, Ruben Lobato (Saunier) and Matthias Kessler (T-Mobile), with Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) and Joan Horrach Rippoll (Illes Balears) at 1'50.
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As the final 9km climb to Pontives began after 202km of racing, the last 3km were the hardest and steepest. As the break hit the bottom, Caucchioli made a test move, but was quickly covered by Garate. After 2km of climbing, maglia verde Rujano made two consecutive attacks that were stopped, but then his teammate Parra countered and got a 10 second gap. This provoked an acceleration by Caucchioli and Garate, and only Rujano and Valjavec could stay with them.
Zabriskie and Schleck dropped off the pace with 7km to go, and Simoni then sent his teammate Vila to the front to drive the tempo up. Vila's forcing blew plenty of riders out the back but the hardest part was still to come. Three minutes up the road, Caucchioli, Garate and Rujano were closing on Parra but the tough Colombian was hanging on. From the gruppo maglia rosa, Sanchez attacked hard and was followed by Osa. Suddenly Simoni attacked too, and only Savoldelli could follow him, while Basso couldn't respond to accelerations and dropped off the pace.
The Discovery rider was strong and after a few meters with Simoni, il Falco flew the coop towards the finish and gained 0'40 on Basso in one kilometre, becoming virtual maglia rosa. Savoldelli was looking like the same rider who exploded in Passo Coe to Folgaria to win the Giro d'Italia three years ago.
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Parra came over the top of Pontives with a 15 gap over the four chasers, while Savoldelli was continuing to fly up the ascent to take more time out of Basso. Chasers Di Luca, who had gotten across to Simoni were 0'23 behind Savoldelli, while Basso crested the hill 1'05 behind Savoldelli, having lost all his time in the final 5km of the ascent. After six and a half hours of racing, Parra won the stage after being away for almost 200km. Behind him were the remains of the break and eventually Savoldelli, Di Luca, Simoni and Ivan Basso. Although the maglia rosa changed hands, Di Luca and Simoni gained time on the race lead, as did breakaway riders Garate, Caucchioli and Rujano, while Gonchar, Cioni and Bruseghin all lost time.
Stage 14 - May 22: Egna-Livigno, 210km
Starting at the Würth factory in Egna, Stage 14 is another difficult day of mountain climbing at the Giro d'Italia with 5000m of altitude gain. The first 38km climbs up through the Catinaccio chain east of Bolzano, then plunges back down to the Adige Valley and heads due west towards the east face of the Passo Stelvio and it's terrible 48 hairpin turns over 25km that eventually arrives at Cima Coppi, at 2758m the highest point of the 2005 Giro d’Italia. although some rain may fall late Sunday afternoon, the Stelvio is open and the Giro should pass with no problem.
Then it's a 20km descent to Bormio, and another long, difficult ascent up to the Passo di Foscagno (2291m) before descending to the finish in Livigno.
Photography
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Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Ivan Basso (CSC) signs autographs
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Cafitta) signs on
- The peloton flanked by snow covered mountain sides
- Ivan Basso (CSC) descends
- Ivan Basso (CSC) ringed by teammates
- Ivan Basso (CSC) looking comfy…for now
- Michael Blaudzun (CSC) really likes pain
- Dave Z did a lot of work for Basso today
- The break admires the view
- The gruppetto admires the view
- Joseba Beloki (Liberty) quit the race today
- Sven Krauss (Gerolsteiner) seemed to manage the steep gradients ok
- Ivan Basso (CSC) struggled a bit today
- Sven Krauss (Gerolsteiner) looks ahead…
- The CSC train in South Tyrol
- CSC also led on the descents
- Sven Krauss (Gerolsteiner) settles in
- Sven Krauss (Gerolsteiner) alone, after being dropped by the break
- There was a lot of climbing action today
- Going up
- CSC on the front, as usual
- The peloton on a Dolomite
- Basso had a lot of team support today
- The peloton versus the mountains
- It was spectacular again in the Dolomiti
- The main group going downhill fast
- Ivan Basso (CSC) lost a bit of time today
- Basso crosses the line 1'06 down on Savoldelli
- Baby face
- Francesco Guidolin
- Francesco Guidolin at the top of one of the passes
- Gilberto Simoni (Lampre-Cafitta) rides away from Basso, with Savoldelli in tow
- Cunego and Gibo with Aitor Gonzalez on the Passo delle Erbe
- Cunego and Gibo with Aitor Gonzalez, looking for the peloton
- Frank Schleck (CSC) leads Bassso
- The break drives on the flat
- Juan Manuel Garate (Saunier Duval) moved up a few places on GC today
- Ivan Basso (CSC) with Savoldelli close behind
- Gilberto Simoni (Lampre-Cafitta) and teammate Damiano Cunego put Basso under a lot of pressure today
- Gibo and Damiano consult
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Cafitta) had a better day today
- Gilberto Simoni (Lampre-Cafitta) leading the group
- Lampre's Gibo Simoni and Damiano Cunego prepare to hatch their cunning plan
- Basso looks concerned. He should be!
- Going down
- The Incredible Hulk Jose Rujano (Selle Italia)
- Going up: menswear, second floor, ladies lingerie, fifth floor, mind the door
- CSC used all of its men today
- Ivan Basso (CSC) with Cunego on his wheel
- Peron and Blaudzun work for Basso
- Ivan Basso (CSC) lookin' good
- The front group
- The group is cheered on
- Dolomites
- Are we there yet? I want an icecream
- Parts of the gruppetto
- It was a long day for everyone
- Barren landscape near the top
- Whee!
- Gilberto Simoni (Lampre-Cafitta) attacks on the last climb
- Gibo and Paolo do damage
- Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel, R) realises he has company…
- Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery) makes Simoni hurt
- Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery) en route to the maglia rosa
- Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery) flew the coop and took the maglia rosa
- Simoni and Di Luca get together
- Sella, Cunego, and Bruseghin
- Ivan Basso (CSC) in difficulty
- Ivan Parra (Selle Italia) gets ready to finish
- Ivan Parra (Selle Italia) scores an emotional win
- Ivan Parra (Selle Italia) salutes from the podium
- Ivan Parra (Selle Italia) struggles with the bottle
- Success!
- Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery) always looks a bit nonplussed
- Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery) thinking, 'I'll get that girl on my left with the spumante.'
- Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery) in pink, uncorking the bubbled fury
Images by Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com
- The front main pack goes up the Gardena
- CSC at the front on the Gardena
- Cunego and pals going up the Gardena
- Jose Luis Carrasco Gamiz with some clown that was on the course
- Discovery Channel's Michael Barry on the Passo Gardena
- Winner Ivan Parra (Selle Italia)
- Di Luca and Simoni come in together
- Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery) chats with radio
- Davitamon-Lotto helps out some fans up the Passo Gardena
- Ruben Lobato goes up the Passo Gardena
- Second placed Juan Manuel Garate rides up the Passo Gardena
- Basso with his team
- Evgeni Petrov (Lampre) goes up the Gardena
- Marco Milesi (Liquigas) goes up again
- Petacchi asking 'Is the climbing over? I want to sprint!'
- Parra sprays the crowd
- Well, it's a take off from F-1 racing: Let's spray the girls and Paolo Savoldelli does it well
- Bettini gets the purple points jersey
Results
1 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 6.31.34 (33.404 km/h) 2 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.23 3 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 4 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 0.27 5 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.46 6 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.57 7 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 3.03 8 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3.48 9 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 4.00 10 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 4.07 11 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 12 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4.38 13 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 14 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 15 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 16 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears 17 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 18 Unai Osa Eizaguirre (Spa) Illes Balears 19 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 20 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.59 21 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 5.08 22 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5.10 23 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.14 24 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 5.23 25 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon-Lotto 5.41 26 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 5.49 27 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 28 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 29 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 5.52 30 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 6.12 31 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 32 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 6.21 33 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.28 34 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole 7.01 35 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 36 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 7.03 37 Francisco J Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 8.07 38 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 39 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 8.24 40 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 41 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8.44 42 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10.05 43 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 10.24 44 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 10.42 45 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 11.52 46 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears 12.55 47 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 14.22 48 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 14.26 49 Jose' Antonio Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick.Step 50 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 14.38 51 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 52 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14.50 53 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 26.10 54 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 31.18 55 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 31.23 56 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 57 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 58 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 59 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Caffita 60 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 61 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 62 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 63 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 64 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Caffita 65 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 66 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 67 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 68 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 69 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 70 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 71 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 72 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 73 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 74 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 75 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 76 Javier Ramirez Abeja (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 77 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 78 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 79 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 80 Rene' Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 81 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 82 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 83 Antonio Cruz (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 84 Angel Gomez Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 85 Roberto Laiseka Jaio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 86 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 36.36 87 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 88 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 89 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 90 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 91 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 92 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 93 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 94 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 95 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 96 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 97 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 98 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 99 Ignacio Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 100 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 101 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 102 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 103 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 104 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 105 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 106 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 107 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 108 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 109 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 110 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 111 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 112 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 113 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 114 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 115 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 116 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 117 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 118 Jose Luis Carrasco Gamiz (Spa) Illes Balears 119 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 120 Andre' Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 121 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick.Step 122 Mads Christensen (Den) Quick.Step 123 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 124 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step 125 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 126 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick.Step 127 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 128 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 38.25 129 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 41.56 130 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 131 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 132 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 133 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 134 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears 135 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 136 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 137 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 138 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 139 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 140 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 141 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 142 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 143 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 144 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 145 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 146 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 147 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 148 Antonio Tauler Lull (Spa) Illes Balears 149 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears 150 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 151 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 152 Trent Wilson (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 153 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 154 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 155 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 156 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 157 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 158 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 159 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 160 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 161 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 162 Bjoern Leukemans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 42.24 163 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 164 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 42.30 165 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 42.41 166 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 167 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 44.21 DNF Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone DNF Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team DNF Marco Fertonani (Ita) Domina Vacanze DNF Thomas Ziegler (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF David Navas Chica (Spa) Illes Balears DNF Joseba Beloki Dorronsoro (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team DNF Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick.Step DNF Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank DNF Steven De Jongh (Ned) Rabobank DNF Francisco J. Ventoso Alberdi (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir DNS Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi DNS Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone DNS Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Credit Agricole DNS Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto DNS Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto DNS Baden Cooke (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux Points 1 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 25 pts 2 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 24 3 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 16 4 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 16 5 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 16 6 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 13 7 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 10 8 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 9 9 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 7 10 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 6 11 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 12 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5 13 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4 14 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 3 15 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 16 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 2 17 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1 Mountains Passo Di Costalunga - km 71,1 1 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 5 pts 2 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 3 3 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole 1 Passo Di Sella - km 106,2 1 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 10 pts 2 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole 6 3 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 4 4 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 5 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 1 Passo Di Gardena - km 117,4 1 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 5 pts 2 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 3 3 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1 Passo Delle Erbe "Montagna Pantani" - km 161 1 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 pts 2 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 6 3 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 4 4 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 5 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 1 Pontives - km 213,8 1 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 10 pts 2 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 6 3 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 4 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 2 5 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Intergiro 1 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 5.35.02 2 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 6 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 7 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 8 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 9 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 10 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team Most combative 1 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 20 pts 2 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 18 3 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 15 4 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 5 5 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 5 6 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole 4 7 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 8 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 9 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 10 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1 Azzurri d'Italia 1 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 4 pts 2 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 3 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 1 Trofeo Fuga Piaggio 1 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 12 pts Trofeo Fast Team 1 Credit Agricole 19.48.02 2 Liquigas-Bianchi 0.35 3 Domina Vacanze 0.55 4 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 1.45 5 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 2.35 6 Lampre-Caffita 3.32 7 Phonak Hearing System 8.25 8 Illes Balears-Caisse D'epargne 8.51 9 Saunier Duval-Prodir 10.09 10 Rabobank 14.40 11 Selle Italia-Colombia 23.39 12 Davitamon-Lotto 29.56 13 T-Mobile Team 31.00 14 Team CSC 32.24 15 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 34.08 16 Euskaltel-Euskadi 38.07 17 Quick.Step-Innergetic 46.06 18 Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 53.26 19 Bouygues Telecom 55.54 20 Fassa Bortolo 1.04.30 21 Gerolsteiner 1.04.51 22 Française Des Jeux 1.26.02 Trofeo Super Team 1 Selle Italia-Colombia 38 pts 2 Domina Vacanze 20 3 Saunier Duval-Prodir 19 4 Credit Agricole 17 5 Lampre-Caffita 17 6 Phonak Hearing System 16 7 T-Mobile Team 15 8 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 14 9 Liquigas-Bianchi 14 10 Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 12 11 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 10 12 Fassa Bortolo 9 13 Illes Balears-Caisse D'epargne 8 14 Gerolsteiner 1 15 Team CSC 16 Euskaltel-Euskadi 17 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 18 Davitamon-Lotto 19 Rabobank 20 Bouygues Telecom 21 Quick.Step-Innergetic 22 Française Des Jeux General classification after stage 13 1 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 60.31.12 2 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 0.50 3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 0.53 4 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 2.16 5 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.39 6 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 3.25 7 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 4.05 8 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 4.23 9 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4.54 10 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 6.17 11 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 6.18 12 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 6.19 13 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears 6.44 14 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6.51 15 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 7.38 16 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 7.40 17 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 8.13 18 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon-Lotto 8.20 19 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 9.39 20 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 9.50 21 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 10.02 22 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 10.16 23 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 10.57 24 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11.14 25 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 11.26 26 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11.39 27 Unai Osa Eizaguirre (Spa) Illes Balears 12.40 28 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 12.57 29 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 13.20 30 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 15.43 31 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 15.54 32 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 16.28 33 Francisco J Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 17.52 34 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 18.06 35 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 19.43 36 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 20.11 37 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 21.10 38 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 22.22 39 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 22.33 40 Guido Trentin (Ita) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 23.18 41 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 23.38 42 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 24.08 43 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 28.26 44 Joan Horrach Rippoll (Spa) Illes Balears 29.13 45 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole 29.30 46 Aitor Gonzalez Jimenez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 30.12 47 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 33.34 48 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 36.54 49 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 38.20 50 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 38.33 51 Andrea Tonti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 40.25 52 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 42.28 53 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 42.45 54 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 47.07 55 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick.Step 47.52 56 Jan Schaffrath (Ger) T-Mobile Team 49.14 57 Roberto Laiseka Jaio (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 50.13 58 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 55.40 59 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 56.32 60 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 57.40 61 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 58.02 62 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 58.58 63 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 59.46 64 Christian Werner (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.01.54 65 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre-Caffita 1.04.27 66 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Team CSC 1.05.53 67 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Caffita 1.06.14 68 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1.07.04 69 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.09.30 70 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 1.09.33 71 Sven Montgomery (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.10.06 72 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 1.10.46 73 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 1.10.54 74 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.11.18 75 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 1.12.02 76 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 1.13.31 77 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1.13.34 78 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1.13.39 79 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.14.05 80 Jose Luis Carrasco Gamiz (Spa) Illes Balears 1.15.00 81 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 1.15.09 82 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 83 Cyrille Monnerais (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1.16.11 84 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1.17.02 85 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 1.18.53 86 Javier Ramirez Abeja (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1.19.15 87 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick.Step 1.19.16 88 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 1.24.39 89 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.24.51 90 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.25.01 91 Angel Gomez Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.25.30 92 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 1.25.31 93 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.25.45 94 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.26.18 95 Daniel Schnider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.26.20 96 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.27.04 97 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.27.28 98 Rene' Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1.27.52 99 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.28.22 100 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 1.28.37 101 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.32.25 102 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 1.32.36 103 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.32.48 104 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1.34.15 105 Christophe Kern (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.34.23 106 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.34.41 107 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 1.34.44 108 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 1.35.57 109 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 1.36.06 110 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.36.21 111 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.36.28 112 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 1.36.58 113 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 1.36.59 114 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 1.37.02 115 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.38.07 116 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1.39.57 117 Jose' Antonio Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick.Step 1.41.25 118 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Credit Agricole 1.41.57 119 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.42.33 120 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1.43.11 121 Gregory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.43.56 122 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.43.57 123 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) Illes Balears 1.44.31 124 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.45.00 125 Antonio Cruz (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.45.36 126 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.45.53 127 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.45.54 128 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1.46.59 129 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.48.26 130 Antonio Tauler Lull (Spa) Illes Balears 1.48.33 131 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick.Step 1.48.40 132 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1.48.41 133 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1.49.07 134 Bjoern Leukemans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1.50.16 135 Andre' Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.50.26 136 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.50.46 137 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) Illes Balears 1.51.01 138 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.51.50 139 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 1.52.26 140 Marco Milesi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.52.50 141 Ignacio Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.53.48 142 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 1.54.41 143 Franck Renier (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.55.05 144 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 1.55.36 145 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 146 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.55.49 147 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.56.00 148 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 1.56.32 149 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.57.12 150 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1.59.05 151 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.59.11 152 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 1.59.28 153 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 1.59.59 154 Mads Christensen (Den) Quick.Step 2.00.30 155 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 2.00.47 156 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.00.49 157 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.02.38 158 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 2.04.28 159 Unai Etxebarria Arana (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.04.59 160 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 2.06.27 161 Trent Wilson (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 2.08.34 162 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.08.52 163 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 2.09.27 164 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 2.11.44 165 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 2.12.59 166 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.17.56 167 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 2.33.09 Points classification 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 119 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 111 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 104 4 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 84 5 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 69 6 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 63 7 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 56 8 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 52 9 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 48 10 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 48 11 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 47 12 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 45 13 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 40 14 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 39 15 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 33 16 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 32 17 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 31 18 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 30 19 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon-Lotto 30 20 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 29 21 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 29 22 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 25 23 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 25 24 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 25 25 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 25 26 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 24 27 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 23 28 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 23 29 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 22 30 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 21 31 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 19 32 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19 33 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 19 34 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 19 35 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 18 36 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 18 37 Simone Cadamuro (Ita) Domina Vacanze 17 38 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 15 39 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 15 40 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Quick.Step 14 41 Bjoern Leukemans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 14 42 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears 13 43 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 13 44 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 12 45 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 12 46 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 47 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 12 48 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 11 49 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 11 50 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 11 51 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 52 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 10 53 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 9 54 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team 9 55 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 56 Angel Gomez Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 57 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 8 58 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 8 59 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 8 60 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 8 61 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 7 62 Jan Hruska (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 7 63 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6 64 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 6 65 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 6 66 Uros Murn (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 67 Mads Christensen (Den) Quick.Step 6 68 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 4 69 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 4 70 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 71 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 72 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 3 73 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 3 74 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 2 75 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 2 76 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 2 77 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 78 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 1 79 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Rabobank 1 80 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1 81 Marco Velo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1 82 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1 Mountains classification 1 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 73 pts 2 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 28 3 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 21 4 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 18 5 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 17 6 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 16 7 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 14 8 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 10 9 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 7 10 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole 7 11 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 6 12 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5 13 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 5 14 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 5 15 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 5 16 Mads Christensen (Den) Quick.Step 5 17 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 4 18 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4 19 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 20 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4 21 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 22 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 23 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 3 24 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 2 25 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 2 26 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 27 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 2 28 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1 29 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 1 30 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 1 31 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Lampre-Caffita 1 32 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 1 33 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 1 34 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1 35 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1 36 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1 Intergiro classification 1 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 34.48.32 2 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 0.17 3 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 0.25 4 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 1.22 5 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 1.33 6 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 1.49 7 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.51 8 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1.55 9 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 2.07 10 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11 Angel Gomez Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 13 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 14 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 2.08 15 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 16 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.13 17 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 18 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 19 Mads Christensen (Den) Quick.Step 20 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.19 Most combative classification 1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 40 pts 2 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 39 3 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 27 4 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 26 5 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 21 6 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 21 7 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 20 8 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 19 9 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 17 10 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 16 11 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 15 12 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 13 13 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 11 14 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 10 15 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 10 16 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10 17 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 18 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 8 19 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 8 20 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 8 21 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Domina Vacanze 8 22 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 8 23 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 7 24 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7 25 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 6 26 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 6 27 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon-Lotto 6 28 Erik Zabel (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6 29 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 6 30 Mads Christensen (Den) Quick.Step 6 31 Wladimir Belli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 5 32 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 33 Angel Gomez Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5 34 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 5 35 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 5 36 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 5 37 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 38 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 4 39 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 4 40 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole 4 41 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 4 42 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 4 43 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 4 44 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 4 45 Marcel Strauss (Swi) Gerolsteiner 4 46 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 3 47 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3 48 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 49 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 3 50 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3 51 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 3 52 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 53 Bjoern Leukemans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3 54 Daniel Atienza Urendez (Spa) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 2 55 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 2 56 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 57 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2 58 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 59 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 60 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 2 61 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 2 62 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2 63 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears 1 64 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 1 65 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 1 66 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1 67 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick.Step 1 68 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 69 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 1 70 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 1 71 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 1 Azzurri d'Italia classification 1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 11 pts 2 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 9 3 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 6 4 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 5 5 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 4 6 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 4 7 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 4 8 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 4 9 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 4 10 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 4 11 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Illes Balears 3 12 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 13 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2 14 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 2 15 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 2 16 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1 17 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 1 18 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 1 19 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Col) Davitamon-Lotto 1 20 Volodymyr Bileka (Ukr) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1 21 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1 22 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Trofeo Fuga Piaggio classification 1 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 334 pts 2 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Colombia 186 3 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 168 4 Cedric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 168 5 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Selle Italia-Colombia 166 6 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 144 7 Mads Christensen (Den) Quick.Step 122 8 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 119 9 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Quick.Step 118 10 Bram Schmitz (Ned) T-Mobile Team 117 11 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Rabobank 117 12 Moreno Di Biase (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 115 13 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 98 14 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Colombia 93 15 Ivan Parra (Col) Selle Italia-Colombia 60 16 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 60 17 Koldo Gil Perez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 57 18 Eric Baumann (Ger) T-Mobile Team 54 19 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 47 20 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 40 21 Jose' Rujano Guillen (Ven) Selle Italia-Colombia 36 22 Sascha Urweider (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 35 23 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 33 24 Angel Gomez Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 31 25 Rory Sutherland (Aus) Rabobank 30 26 Ruslan Ivanov (Mda) Domina Vacanze 29 27 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 28 28 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Caffita 28 29 Rene' Andrle (Cze) Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 26 30 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 26 31 Andrea Moletta (Ita) Gerolsteiner 26 32 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 25 33 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 21 34 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas-Bianchi 21 35 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick.Step 15 36 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 15 37 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 15 38 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas-Bianchi 15 39 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 11 40 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 41 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5 Trofeo Fast Team classification 1 Liquigas-Bianchi 181.45.38 2 Domina Vacanze 5.42 3 Lampre-Caffita 6.55 4 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 8.21 5 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 8.59 6 Credit Agricole 11.54 7 Illes Balears-Caisse D'epargne 24.49 8 Davitamon-Lotto 37.05 9 Saunier Duval-Prodir 39.00 10 Phonak Hearing System 42.22 11 Rabobank 42.52 12 Team CSC 54.34 13 Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.00.02 14 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 1.04.32 15 Selle Italia-Colombia 1.08.15 16 T-Mobile Team 1.21.40 17 Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 1.27.13 18 Quick.Step-Innergetic 1.33.39 19 Fassa Bortolo 2.07.32 20 Gerolsteiner 2.13.39 21 Bouygues Telecom 2.34.48 22 Française Des Jeux 3.04.18 Trofeo Super Team classification 1 Davitamon-Lotto 238 pts 2 Liquigas-Bianchi 232 3 Domina Vacanze 204 4 Fassa Bortolo 173 5 Quick.Step-Innergetic 166 6 Credit Agricole 163 7 Lampre-Caffita 142 8 Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 137 9 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 137 10 Illes Balears-Caisse D'epargne 131 11 Gerolsteiner 130 12 T-Mobile Team 130 13 Saunier Duval-Prodir 105 14 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Team 103 15 Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone 103 16 Phonak Hearing System 98 17 Française Des Jeux 79 18 Team CSC 76 19 Selle Italia-Colombia 71 20 Rabobank 57 21 Bouygues Telecom 51 22 Euskaltel-Euskadi 4
